Evidence mapPaperPMID 34622228Full record

Trial reportCell reports. Medicine2021

Levels of circulating semaglutide determine reductions in HbA1c and body weight in people with type 2 diabetes.

Rune V Overgaard, Christin L Hertz, Steen H Ingwersen, Andrea Navarria, Daniel J Drucker

Open access · goldAbstract readClinical Trial, Phase III
In one paragraph

Trial report in Cell reports. Medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 49 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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49citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

49 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 94 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. The evolving landscape of obesity pharmacotherapy.Nature reviews. Drug discovery · 2026
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  13. Semaglutide - properties, action and chromatographic analysis.Journal of diabetes and metabolic disorders · 2025
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  14. Oral Semaglutide as an Opportunity for an Appropriate Therapeutic Switch in People with Type 2 Diabetes: A Delphi Consensus.Diabetes therapy : research, treatment and education of diabetes and related disorders · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Rune V OvergaardNovo Nordisk A/S, Søborg, Denmark.
Christin L HertzNovo Nordisk A/S, Søborg, Denmark.
Steen H IngwersenNovo Nordisk A/S, Søborg, Denmark.
Andrea NavarriaNovo Nordisk A/S, Søborg, Denmark.
Daniel J DruckerDepartment of Medicine, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mt. Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Novo Nordisk (Denmark) · DK

Funding

CIHR 154321
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RA) are used for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. Whether clinically important responses and adverse events (AEs) are dependent on the route of administration has not been determined. We demonstrate that nearly identical exposure-response pharmacodynamic relationships are determined by plasma semaglutide levels achieved through oral versus injectable administration for changes in HbA

Indexed as

Body WeightAdministration, OralBlood PressureC-Reactive ProteinDiabetes Mellitus, Type 2FemaleGlucagon-Like PeptidesGlycated HemoglobinHumansInjectionsInjections, SubcutaneousMaleMiddle AgedSemaglutideTriglyceridesC-Reactive ProteinGlucagon-Like PeptidesGlycated HemoglobinSemaglutideTriglyceridesAlzheimer’s diseasediabetesGLP-1glucagon-like peptideG protein coupled receptornon-alcoholic hepatosteatosisobesitypeptideweight loss

Identifiers

PMID34622228
PMCPMC8484505
OpenAlexW3198399789

What Socratic holds

Texttitle and abstract
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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.